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Art: Nikki Friede "The only path forward is the one democracy has always demanded of us: organize, participate, speak out, and outvote those who continue to mistake blind allegiance for patriotism. I still believe truth matters." -Michael Jochum
Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins made a startling admission Tuesday while speaking at a trade show in Minnesota, one so brazen that journalist Prem Thakker was left taken aback.
These evil assholes only preach about fiscal-responsibility when poor, sick, elderly and disabled people need help staying alive. They consider using public monies that help ordinary people to be an illegitimate interference in the
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Picture a courtroom in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. A sitting congressman sits at the table, watching his former wife, Emily Moreno, across the room. His own attorney, Larry Zukerman, stands to address the judge.
From Sly Comics: You can’t overcompensate your way out of being awful
The Primary Heard Around the World By Tony Pentimalli Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in Michigan after some of the most
Explicit Content Warning: The article below contains detailed discussions of severe institutional misconduct, including physical assault, sexual violence, and crimes against children involving federal law enforcement personnel.
Representative Shirley Chisholm, 1972: "[W]e have looked in vain to the Nixon administration for the courage, the spirit, the character, and the words to lift us, to bring out the best in us, to rekindle in each of us our faith in the American dream."
Shirley Chisholm: Declares Presidential Bid, January 25, 1972
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Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 4h agoFormer J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
The strongest available evidence supports a zoonotic origin for COVID-19. - The virus is genetically diverse in ways typical of natural viruses and atypical of gain-of-function (GoF) viruses. 🧵
The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson
Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.
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Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters who packed the meeting room — and two overflow rooms — to demand that their voting locations remain open. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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🗽Heather Cox Richardson On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of Donald Trump's bank accounts. It stated, the accounts were closed “for anti-money laundering reasons.” Read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2...
#Trump is the most divisive President in the history of this country. Who knew our political system was so fragile that one man could clog the workings with help from just a few Benedict Arnold types to help him.
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."